Drought adaptation and carbon balance
Can European forests still help us fight climate change? Europe’s recent heat dome provides a lesson on how forests are responding to accelerating climate change. Forests are expected to store carbon and help mitigate climate change—but can they continue to do so as heat and drought intensify? At this time the FORbEST project is in […]
The unavoidable harmonisation of forest monitoring
Wild Europe’s Zoltan Kun, as the representative of the FORbEST project, was invited as a panellist to the final conference of the PathFinder Horizon Project. The event explored the challenges and opportunities to improve forest monitoring throughout Europe. While the European Parliament rejected the concept of the EU Forest Monitoring Law, increased knowledge about our […]
Listening for Biodiversity in a Thai Forest: Installation of bat and bird sound recording devices
As part of the FORbEST biodiversity monitoring work, we are testing novel techniques to understand if there are more efficient ways to collect meaningful biodiversity data. One of these techniques requires us to place song meters throughout the forest to record bird and bat vocalisations. This blog shares the story of our Thai research team […]
Rewilding Forests = Rewilding Society
Rewilding is about letting nature lead the way in repairing degraded and damaged ecosystems. According to the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management, rewilding is a process aimed at restoring self-sustaining, resilient ecosystems that are “nature-led” and “human-enabled.” It focuses on reinstating the natural processes that would occur in the absence of human interference. But what […]
Strict protection for primary and old-growth forests.
FORbEST partner brings old-growth forests in the spotlight
